Track 3 of the EP Before the Stallholders Wake · 2016
Snow That Forgot to Stay
“Snow that cannot decide to be snow. I wrote the melody to fall apart gently at the end of each line.”
operatic pop · impressionist · chamber pop · 4:57
Lyrics
The first flakes came at midnight, soft as a sigh They touched the window glass and turned to rain I waited by the lamplight for the roofs to turn white And the morning showed me only puddles again The children ran out hopeful with their mittens and their sleds The hill was green and shining and wet Every little promise of a quiet sheet of white Dissolved before the town had woken yet Snow that forgot to stay Falling like a letter that the wind has taken away I hold out my hand and I count each one Small and bright and gone Snow that forgot to stay Teach me how to love what will not last the day My mother used to say that the sky is only shy It gives a little, then it draws the curtain home I think of her at the window with her tea going cold Watching all that falling find no place of its own Snow that forgot to stay Falling like a letter that the wind has taken away I hold out my hand and I count each one Small and bright and gone Snow that forgot to stay Teach me how to love what will not last the day Maybe it is enough to be seen A shimmer on the dark, a silver in between Maybe the beauty was the falling all along Not the white that never came, but the song Snow that forgot to stay Falling like a letter that the wind has taken away I hold out my hand and I count each one Small and bright and gone Snow that forgot to stay I will love it anyway Falling, falling, soft and slow Let it fall, let it go